Deciphering The Mumbo Jumbo (keep reading till the end)

And as I recall, you bought exactly what you wanted, use it a LOT, and have a great time. Finding a replacement tow vehicle shouldn't be that difficult!

I think our 2005 Dodge Durango Hemi is coming to a close. After 375,000 km, 80,000 of which are towing, it has served us well. So far, we will keep the travel trailer for another 10 years. You just can't find a 24ft TT with two slideouts.

Thanks so much for the information!

We bought a 2006 Dodge Durango with the giant Hemi engine so we could buy a small trailer, go the US, and bring down our few household items. It did the job well however, the mileage was horrible.

Want to buy a 2006 Durango? It's about to hit Mercado Libre and Facebook.

We need something else, just enough to be able to put our boards on the roof for a short road trip, and hold the two big dogs for a longer one. Maybe we should look into alternative energy products!

Hopefully something used. Thanks, qttla9111 for the heads up!

Better quality gasoline? According to you guys, if it comes from somewhere else it has to be good.

Prius is a very popular hybrid that does a hell of a job in city driving and sells in Mexico for $17,000 U.S. and the Nissan Leaf, 100% electric sells for $27,000 U.S. Telsa will be out the end of this year in Mexico. Dealerships are already going up, and just like in the U.S., Mexico has a market.

There are already three ethanol plants in Mexico.

"Ethanol can be used in cars at 20% for 80% gasoline, however Flex fuel cars (vehicles that can run on both fuels, both ethanol and gasoline, and with the mixture of them in any proportion, contain a software in the electronic control system that determines the mix and makes the adjustments automatically). As Flex fuel looks just like gasoline models, it is possible that you are driving a Flex Fuel and you have not even noticed. These cars can use up to 80% ethanol for 20% gasoline, which represents an important saving."

To reiterate the significance of the first post...

An explosion of ARCO SHELL, BP stations is coming to the northwest gulf area of Mexico. I believe the expansion may even extend into the state of Nayarit.

Guaranteed pure UBA diesel.

Better quality regular gasoline

And perhaps company pressure on dealers to have less "error" in their dispensers.

I have no idea if alcohol will be present but Mexico has capped alcohol content at three percent regardless of origin.

My friends Luis and Xavier the pair of Pemex engineers have dropped off the map.

Like the guy who stumbles across the line and says "Oh sorry I couldn't make it :)"

It has been said "Mexico Is Ungovernable"

One has to move their butt off of Park Avenue and Mulholland Dr. to see how America really works and people who live in Mexico have to travel to where 90% of the rest of the country is into order to glimpse the infrastructure EMERGENCIES that need to be addressed before cutesy electric cars and smart home environment systems become more than a flash in the pan.

Fully 90% of where I have lived and live DEMANDS rooftop water tanks called tinacas because water is not only intermittent it is only available on sequential days of the weeks. When pressure is cut the pipes suck things inwards. No need to elaborate.

People have tiny refrigerators and tramp back and forth to corner stores. Price of the refrigerator? Partially? Electrical demand? Partially. The majority is a large refrigerator allows a greater amount of food to spoil WHEN not if the power goes out.

If it was a few hundreds of thousands or even a million residents that need basic infrastructure CRITICAL EMERGENCY improvement right now, I would say yes, it is time for Mexico to invest heavily into electric cars. But I am talking about TENS OF MILLIONS of people that need immediate help with basic infrastructure. "Moving Forward" means having water that allows a toilet to flush without ladling it from a barrel beside the toilet. "Moving forward" means having LPG gas delivery not attempting to fill a 10 Kg pot from a plant 50 Km distant. Chopping down a forest is more feasible?

A lot of pollution can be resolved by using LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS in buses and delivery trucks. Rooftop tanks. Care to sell that to city residents? Rural Charge stations for electric cars? The Taqueros will have that tapped inside of 10 days and power cords running over the next hill.

Mexicans are looking ahead. I am looking ahead. I wish I could afford a GOLF CAR for use around the village. But it will have to be satisfied with 42 volts of solar panel charging. CFE would strip and sell my hide in exchange for satisfying my bi-monthly bill.

I look forward to the day when I need not plan my day around how much water is seen in the tinacas. Maybe a thousand liter aljibe underground tank with pump and float control?

My preference is to see this beautiful country -lift up- as one. Indian farmers who plant corn and onions on vertical slopes tied off by ropes and knots not have to struggle with ghastly inferior seeds and no fertilizer. Slash sub poverty existence.

But it would be like someone coming to me and asking "Oooooooo you don't have an electric car yet? Don't eat for 10 years and don't use gasoline and maybe they'll extend the power lines a few kilometers closer".

But in heavy urban areas I jump for joy at the thought the hope that enough forty thousand dollar cars can put a dent in the killer grade smog.

But for the rest of the country, electric cars are like trying to sell a fleeing African native a calculator so he can calculate the speed differential of a nile croc snapping at his heels.

Petroleum will be around for at least 20 years, I think. Probably much longer. On the way out? Perhaps, but at a snail's pace.

As for the probability of inaccurate pump metering, why am I not surprised? The love of money is the root of all evil.

Sorry, couldn't finish it...I tried but just couldn't make it to the end.

Guess I am missing the point. Petroleum is on its way out. Time to focus on the future.

Nationalization of companies, parceling out land in small quantities, a broken constitution from the start, have all led to the disaster Mexico is living now.

People need to stop living in the past and look to the future.

Venustiano Carranza wrote:

"The 1917 constitution (Mexican Revolution) was an absurd war. Their representatives could not settle the differences peacefully in the opportunity offered by the Convention of Aguascalientes . Jose Vasconcelos, one of the members of the government emanating from that Supreme Convention, wrote refraining to that drama: it is an imbecile process, of dissolution, and humiliation of a whole race."

Out of 200 revolutions in the world over the last 300 years, only three have made a change. Most revolutions make promises that cannot be kept. For that reason, the Mexican Revolution was or is considered a complete disaster. The idea of giving land to everyone and taking away from the rich and foreign investment only led to millions of Mexicans with very small parcels from which they could never make a living.

One wonders why Mexicans have left their farmlands and moved to cities but then again, only to find out that without formal education their misery continues.

Education is key. Agriculture is still a good business, but one needs to have Agro education to make it work in a global economy.

We still haven't "gotten with the program".

I usually don't tell stories, but here goes a short one. We spent Christmas in Cuatro Cienegas, home of Venustiano Carranza and his 15 brothers and sisters. Most of the town look and feel like the real Venustiano. They keep the legend, politics, and history alive. (That's how you tell a story).